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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by redditmigrant on Friday November 11, 2016 @04:28PM (#12934540)
If you are assuming Clinton and Trump are proxies for and against globalization respectively, more people (aka popular vote) actually voted for continuing globalization.
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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by cloakandswagger on Friday November 11, 2016 @04:38PM (#12934637)
Interesting that people keep rolling out this tired meme when she only won by, what, 200k votes? Your argument isn't very powerful when the margins are so tiny; you're arguing for a technicality.
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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by krisdol on Friday November 11, 2016 @04:40PM (#12934668)
Clinton also stood against TPP.
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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by tomp on Friday November 11, 2016 @07:04PM (#12935636)
She only changed her stance because of pressure from Sanders. Given her "private and public policies", I didn't believe her.
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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by jessaustin on Friday November 11, 2016 @06:25PM (#12935412)
She was against it, after she was for it. No one believed her, especially since Terry McAuliffe let the cat out of the bag.

[EDIT:] I'm surprised the DNC downvoted this, since McAuliffe is yet another plausible person to blame while diverting attention from their terrible and misguided primary-fixing.

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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by YuriNiyazov on Friday November 11, 2016 @04:29PM (#12934551)
Like I said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12934475 the popular vote is irrelevant.
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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by paublyrne on Friday November 11, 2016 @04:47PM (#12934750)
If you're saying it was a referendum then surely the popular vote does matter.
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Re:Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal by oh_sigh on Friday November 11, 2016 @04:59PM (#12934864)
Trump beat HRC by +12 points in EV votes. If that were popular votes, one would probably consider it a referendum
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